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J^ Mr. Root — I forgot to mention that. I turned the screw 

 down only as the wax oozed out and let me ; turn it down. 

 There is no use exerting a lot of strength. fTurn it down 

 gradually, and then you can move it and turn it down a lit- 

 tle lower. 



Dr. Miller — That's right. (I may hire you after all!) -.': ■'']■/: 

 There must be, time allowed for that wax to work out. It is . , i: 



not going to go on a jump. When you squeeze it down tight . .:'^. 



it must have time to work out. Here is a practical question: 

 Suppose that I am at work at something, and I come and 

 screw that down, and I have it standing on the stove. I 

 don't want to stand there screwing all the time. I want to 

 leave for five or ten minutes. I would like to have a way 

 that there would be a constant pressure. I want to know if '-;/■■:::.:''':. 

 there is any law against having a spring there? If there 

 were a heavy spring and sou screwed it down, that spring is , ;<; :./-: 

 making a constant pressure there until you come back again. ■" 



What would be the objection to that? Cost? 



Mr. Root — Cost is one thing, but I don't believe you - r v 



would get any more wax that way, and I think you would \. 



have to be around there just about as much. That is, that 

 operation of pressing is short. It didn't take me over five \ ,; 



minutes to get it pressed after I got it ready, and it was my 

 experience that it is better to do one thing well than to try 

 and do two things and do neither well. Ekit perhaps it is a 

 good plan to let it stand. Did you find any advantage in ^ - ... 

 that, Mr. France? r'/'^'. ■''I:; 



Mr. France — No. I melted it in another package. I had ' ^ f 



the press on the stove and kept it hot, and as fast as two * : 



iron kettles would melt it, I pressed it. We ran four wagon- 

 loads of combs through the press that day. ' . " 



Mr. Root — You heated it in another receptacle and then 

 put it in the wax-press? 



Mr. France — Yes. ^_ ■■::.:': --'[y 



Mr. Root — It is a question how much it will pay you. 

 If you are working for time you had better do that way, but 

 if you are working for wax you had better have the steam 

 generating while pressing. 



Mr. Moore — Mr. Root, you are a civil engineer. It is an 

 ordinary lever used to turn the screw. Now in the presence 

 of that tremendous force, would you add to it at all with a 

 spring? 



Dr. Miller— You can't add to it. 



Mr. Root — It would make a very complicated apparatus. ,y r 

 It would be so complicated and bulky that it wouldn't pay. 

 The pressure you would derive from the use of the spring 

 would be so — 



Mr. Moore — Infinitesimal, wouldn't it? -^ '''-\-.-\:'' ^ 



Mr. Root — Yes, sir. 



Mr. Moore — It would be zero, wouldn't it? 

 1 Mr. Root — It would require a very strong spring. ' . 



Dr. Miller — I protest against that. The screw here :- 



brings it down to a certain point. Within a very short time 

 there is no pressure there. Now, if you had a spring there — 





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